Rochelle (Shelly) Wilkie Martinez is an American government statistician.

Career

Martinez became a researcher for the United States House of Representatives in 1989, associated with the Subcommittee on Census, Statistics, and Postal Personnel. She moved to the United States Department of Commerce in 1995, where she assisted with the design of the

2000 United States Census The United States census of 2000, conducted by the Census Bureau, determined the resident population of the United States on April 1, 2000, to be 281,421,906, an increase of 13.2 percent over the 248,709,873 people enumerated during the 1990 ce ...

, and in 1997 she moved to the United States Census Bureau itself. At the Census Bureau, she became a branch chief in the Data Integration Division. She moved again to the Office of Management and Budget in 2007. There, she spearheaded an effort to organize the government's statistical application of administrative data. In 2016 to 2017, Martinez became executive director of the

U.S. Commission on Evidence-Based Policymaking The U.S. Commission on Evidence-Based Policymaking was a 15-member agency in the federal government charged by the US Congress and the President with examining how government could better use its existing data to provide evidence for future gover ...

. Her work for the commission has included efforts to balance privacy concerns, especially of data on student performance, with the ability to make use of the data across different agencies, as well as the development of processes for creating, releasing, using and managing open data in the federal government.

Recognition

Martinez was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2020.

References

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